The socio-cultural transformations of the Guamo Viejo popular council of the Rio Cauto municipality, based on the strategies of local development initiatives (Original)

Abstract

The idea of ​​the research emerged from different visits to the Guamo Viejo People's Council of Río Cauto municipality as part of the International Project on Food Sovereignty for Local Development aimed at vulnerable groups affected by natural disasters in Caribbean countries; It has among its lines of action the management of community development from the sociocultural dimension, aiming to: Strengthen community management through socio-cultural dynamization by promoting the training of skills and competencies in municipal social and cultural actors and promoting participation Of the population in local development processes.
Its general objective is to propose a strategy of local development initiative that allows socio-cultural transformations in the Guamo Viejo People's Council of Río Cauto municipality. It is shown how in the conditions of the update of the Cuban economic model, actions can be managed from the local development, influencing the unmet demands in the popular councils, from the potentialities of the human being, from the man in his socio context - historical and natural; Creating in them skills, knowledge, to be able to engender cultural processes with their active participation.